VoIP\IP telephony & Class 4, 5

Having touted the Nexus One for weeks on the world’s most-viewed billboard – i.e., the Google homepage – Google Inc. (GOOG) now finds itself in the embarrassing position of having sold just 135,000 of the new mobile devices in the first 10 weeks of the Nexus’ life.One hundred thirty-five thousand – that’s about how many iPhones Apple will sell this month ...

One of the leading lights of the IP telephony software industry filed for an IPO this week, indicating that the door for telecom public offerings may be inching open a bit. VoIP application provider BroadSoft said it would raise up to $103.5 million in an initial public offering. Based in Gaithersburg, Md., BroadSoft was founded in 1998 and, despite losing ...

I wince every time I hear the term “convergence.” Convergence has always been a marketing word for “mess,” wherein multiple technologies coexist and intermingle in ways that increase Tylenol consumption and slow down true telecom innovation.Today’s wireless networks, including the current 3G deployments, still rely on this dirty word with “converged” cell site connections – duplicating provisioning of both TDM ...

Pushing high-speed networks out to bandwidth-hungry businesses, Broadview Networks said it will expand deployments of its Ethernet-over-copper access lines. Aimed at smaller companies without access to fiber, and running over Actelis Networks Inc.’s “Ethernet in the First Mile” network, the expanded service is available in several bundled offerings from Broadview, including SIP trunking, MPLS, the OfficeSuite service, or as a ...

I’ve been keeping an eye on COMPTEL happenings and part of what’s emerged of interest to me smacks of a soap opera. Specifically, the fickleness of wholesale VoIP when it comes to giving CLECs, Verizon Communications Inc. and Sprint-Nextel Corp., the love they deserve.Not that I would really know if the soap analogy is entirely accurate, because, truth be told, ...